Stephen wait a second. Can you hear me . No, i dont want to. Lets get a little business out of the way. Type in your credit card number. Stephen okay. You seem to have a knack under comedy. Now your Social Security number. Mothers maiden name . Stephen really . Company needs it. Name of your first pet. Company need it. Urine sample. Stephen Company Needs it . No, thats for me. For your first lesson on being a great standup comedian. Stephen should i stand up. Why. Stephen if i want to be a standup comedian, i think i should stand up. Never heard of that, but, hey, give it a try. Stephen hows this . Hmmm, not so good, not so good. Stephen steve martin what are you doing here gitook the liberty of signing you up for the deluxe package. Stephen how much is that . You have a lifetime to pay for it. Stephen shouldnt i know the price. Am i i like the idea of standing up. Looking good, looked good. Arch the back a little bit. Bring the arm out, relax the hand. Look at me, bend the knees, a li
Revenue did top estimates. One bright spot was web services, growing sales at 55 . We did talk to andy jassy earlier this month. Business is growing fast. Its an 11 billion run rate business trailing 12 months basis growing 58 year over year. The business is growing by leaps and bounds. Were trying to enable enterprises and Companies Run all their applications on top of our infrastructure platform and it turns out that database is an area they care a lot about and for the last 30 years theyve had relatively little freedom. Pretty amazing, jon. Gene munster at piper today estimates aws is closing in on 40 of net profits on a normalized basis. Incredible. Right. With amazon, you never know exactly what the profitability of the rest of the business is going to be. So who know where is that goes from here. But, yeah, the growth there strong, amazons topline strong as well. The real casualty of this quarter seems to be kind of the santa claustype expectations perhaps about this level of pro
Were getting a sense that the longterm outlook, not the shorter median terrelm, the lon term has taken focus. Where the best longterm profits reside. What do i mean the long term . Lets start with tesla, solar city. Elon musk is trying to create a onestopshop for his incredibly popular cars. It can be summed up as im smarter than you, so i cant bother with you. And except a couple of things. With this deal, musk is not planning for this year or notex year or year after that. There are 50 million rooftops in this country. To musk, that means 50 million power plants. The notion that the electric fleet will look like it does now in further times is long. Why . Because its because of nuclear, coal and natural gas. But new Nuclear Plants cant be built, theyre to expensive. Coals too dirty. Natural gas is a bridge fuel. Heres the thinking that might be one Central Place. This is what his grand scheme really is. One Central Place where we build a j a gigantic solar field. Hes thinking in the
I call this thes hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture attrition and forestry to order. Thank you all for coming. Todays hearing will examine the overall climate of credit in Rural America, the health of ag lending from the commercial bank in the farm Credit System perspectives and what the impact of current credit environment having our nations farms. We will also examine whether the Farm Credit Administration is exercising appropriate oversight in the farm Credit System. Farmers and ranchers across the country are experiencing difficult Economic Conditions as the farm sector profitability is forecast to decline for the Third Straight year. Over the past three years alone, debt debt farm income is expected to decline by 56 . As our nations farmers and Rural Communities continue to deal with low Commodity Prices and always elevated input costs, access to Affordable Credit in Rural America is absolutely crucial. The spring 2016 agriculture Lenders Survey released by kansas stat
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